Re: Octave Stable ppa

[Richard Crozier]

On 17/06/15 08:46, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> > From: Richard Crozier
> > To: Octave Maintainers
> > Cc:
> > Date: 2015/6/17, Wed 15:58
> > Subject: Octave Stable ppa
> >
> > Hi List,
> >
> > Is there any plans to update the Octave stable ppa with the version 4.0 release?
> >
> > Richard
>
>
> What distro do you use? Debian, Ubuntu or something else?
>
> Anyway in octave HP there described:
>
> Executable versions of Octave for GNU/Linux systems are provided by the 
> individual distributions. Distributions known to package Octave include: 
> Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, and SuSE. These packages are created by volunteers. The 
> delay between an Octave source release and the availability of a package for a 
> particular GNU/Linux distribution varies. The Octave project has no control 
> over that process.
>
> Tatsuro


I use Mint Linux, which is based on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian. I 
have found ppa's to be useful while waiting for the official package 
repos to update. Actually I don't need it personally, I can just build 
from source, but for more casual users it's very helpful. I'm referring 
to the ppa apparently maintained at [1] by Mike Millar.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~octave/+archive/ubuntu/stable

Richard

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